VELDA | boulder, co
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nanyang tech LINGUISTICS
univ of colorado boulder LINGUISTICS
this is [hatsuyuki] , where velda has been rocking the grammar since [180706]
i like my parfaits and maple syrup-drenched hotcakes
hmm, what else.. oh yes,
maybe listening to me isnt such a bad idea after all
Just take some time to watch ichiro make that catch that no other ball player can do. okay, maybe im stretching the truth, but ichiro IS good. even red sox fans are giving him standing ovations. ive been waiting for ichiro to bring up his stats, but he just proves himself all the time. mariners need to buck up!! and winning the series against the red sox does help =)) yayy!
have been watching a few youtube videos to put me back in touch with my arashi world. found a few very interesting clips. something i learned from matsujun about a watch called the SLEEPTRACKER, and went to read up about it. its damn cool, it uses some kind of technology thingie (haha) to wake you up in the morning. im a super duper wooper cnt wake up even though i hear my alarm kind of person, and this totally rocks! basically it senses ur pulse activity, and brain activity and sounds the alarm when you are at your most active sleep state, so you wake up refreshed instead of groggy. cool eh? and it distributes in singapore too. wow.
borrowed liting's linguistics notes to take a look at (thanks girl!), so that at least i can see for myself what i would be learning. its not gg to be easy i know, just glancing at the notes, but i think it would be fun.
starting to blog more and more often now, innit. haha. sometimes its good to put my thoughts down, so that they're not all stuck inside my head. i think tt was what jk rowling was thinking about when she came up with the idea of the pensieve. she had too much ideas and plotlines in her head when it came to harry potter. haha.
i just finished one game on the ds, its called professor layton and the curious village. basically it follows a storyline, but you would have to solve puzzles as you go. its really cool, and i cnt wait for the english version of the next installment to come out. heard tt oguri shun is gg to be in the third installment, but if i play the english versh dont think ill hear his voice. daym.
and im learning french too! on the ds. its fun, but the pronunciation kills me. its totally different from japanese, which is rather straightforward with its vowels and everything. french consists of tongue rolling, throat sounds, and every sound that is remotely hard to form with your voice.
un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix.
heehee. its really fun. i need to prepare myself for ntu if i am gg to take french after i finish my japanese.
have been reading a few blogs about ntu and uni applications in general, because ppl have been finding my blog because of it, on google search. what i get incensed at is when people say poly students are of lower standard and iq as compared to jc students. i cnt believe that there are still closeted, pathetic people in the world who still think like tt. don't you read the news? o level students getting 'jc-enabling' grades still opt for poly. ITS OUR CHOICE, not THE ONLY PATH we have. and i think we deserved recognisation for the courage to choose the harder path to uni, because we know what we want to do early in our life.
and i think many many more poly students HAVE the ability to be great uni undergrads. having a merit diploma is not as easy people might think it is. of course, im not saying a business merit holder should get immediate entry to medicine or anything, but at least to his/her related field of study. many poly students don't want to be put down so early.
being a poly student, i might be biased in my views. but im not saying poly students are superior in any sense, i just feel we should be given a fairer chance, if there's such a thing at all. you cannot compare GPAs and A Level results, they are two totally different things.
and away with idiots who are still stuck in their wells.
it was hard looking for a picture that everyone was looking in ONE direction, so i guess i have to make do with this. =) we've graduated, yayy!
graduation day was really great; i didnt know i would be so high. i was laughing and laughing my ass off so much that i kept tearing. it was really a great memory, graduation, and i wouldnt forget it for the rest of my life. seeing my classmates clapping for me, and me for them.. it was really touching, that we all wish each other well. i might not see some of them for the rest of my life alr, and so it makes it all the more treasured.
im having a hard time typing because my fingers have been strained by too much mario kart ds. haha. its so fun, even andy wouldnt let go of it. =))
and its finally raining! whoopee.
went into town for the NTU HSS tea party at marriott, just to see my would-be classmates, and perhaps find out a little more about the course i was taking. surprisingly linguistics was quite hot eh, of course u cnt fight psych, but it was surprisingly hot, our table was the most popular. >_< met a couple of ppl there, which was fun. dy came with me, and he managed to ask the admission-in-charge for sociology qns he needed answered. now tt im gg ntu, really hope he gets in as well.
orchard was packed. with the great singapore sale in full force, it totally drained me just trying to squeeze by the crowds of people tryig to get to where they want to go. goodness. if you really want to get something, take an off day and shop at leisure lahh. must queue outside the shop meh. haha.
think im off to genting in mid-june; beeg family holiday. oh no, the ride up.. ^^"
thursday. the day of numb3rs and mythbusters =) and the day before we graduate. officially, that is.
i got myself the thing ive been wanting for ages.. YAYY! ds lite ds lite ds lite.. yes, i know, im really slow, but i finally got it, and im really happy with it. no cognitive dissonance whatsoever. happily playing mario kart ds and new super mario brothers, of course. yoshi rocks in mario and sonic at the olympic games, and mia, i got cooking mama as well. HAHA. vance loves it lah, he likes being able to 'chop' food like garlic and bamboo shoots up. there are tons of great games. >_< and i fell in love with this ds pouch.
yoshi and baby mario from yoshi's island ds. havent tried the game yet, but i think it will be fun, seeing tt yoshi is soooo cute in it. =) i want to get it, the pouch i mean.
oh and a big piece of news, i guess. have decided to accept the nanyang scholarship and go on to ntu. i mean, this was one scholarship i never thought i could get, but it has a lot of benefits for me and my mom. everything's paid for, so why not, right? and i am excited about linguistics. and i can get a new laptop! macbook here i come!! they just upgraded the specs of the macbook again, so yippee! my ibook is dying by the day, i can feel it under my fingers. and ashley's gg in the scholarship as well. =) so at least i have a partner. =D
accuracy of death with konishi manami and kaneshiro takeshi was not too bad.. takeshi was damnn funny, he suits this kind of dark humour really well. the song, sunny day, is not too bad too. didnt know konishi manami could sing. =)
okay, vance's stuck too long on my ds, i should go grab it back. he's playing elite beat agents i think. which is funnnn.
曲：Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - The Beatles
yes, its another haruki murakami book, probably his most famous work, norwegian wood. like the previous book, i was pulled into the atmosphere, and almost felt i was a japanese university student in the 1960s and 70s. the beatles song is rather dark too >_<
andy sent this to my letterbox, and i received it todayy =) don't you feel that sometimes, receiving things through the mail (snail) actually makes you excited? like a letter addressed to you, or a christmas card? dy knows me. =) and the card is unbelievably cute. yumm ^^
there were loads of things i was planning to talk about, but i kind of forgot them all. oh no. thats a sign of growing old. sigh. dy's bringing me out for lunch tmr! yippee~ and i have a whole host of activities lined up for the rest of the week. save me. it's end of school and im stressed over more stuff.
helped a 08-er with her first ICA today, feel rather good about myself. feel old as well. graduation's in 9 days, and somehow its kind of a sense of achievement i think. ill miss NYP though, made great friends, and the lecturers and everyone. a line from hana kimi, minami senpai told mizuki,
誰が何を言っても、これは君の母校だ！
or something like that. yep, NYP will always be my bokou, in a way.
you know, sometimes you get freaked out by the books you read, and that's when you know how good an author can be. with just words as the medium, how does someone manage to put them together to create an ambience so poignant you get sucked in head first?
i just finished my first haruki murakami novel, never touched any of his works before, because im not really a person into contemporary literature. it wasn't a book i understood totally, sputnik sweetheart, but somehow, i was drawn into the atmosphere he created.
i think ive read too much agatha christies, so much so that when someone disappears, you'd expect him to turn up dead somewhere. but sputnik sweetheart intentionally left things hanging, and the use of doppelgangers freaks me out totally. how i hate that word. i first came across it in, surprise surprise, an Agatha Christie novel, At Bertram's Hotel, and imagining myself staring at another me just freaks me outtt.
so now its 3.39am in the morning, and i cnt sleep; i know i wont sleep well after that book. the only thing that would help was if i had a teenage romance to read, but unfortunately, my book collection is too bloody and conspiracy-esque. and i borrowed nothing but mysteries from the library this time.
i suddenly feel like fruit.
last night's thunderstorm was the first in many weeks, yet it gave me the same feeling i got from reading the haruki murakami today. as the lightning and thunder raged on, i looked out of the window, only to feel a shiver that didnt come from the wind, and closing the pane didnt help much. i felt powerless, in a sense.
scared, mostly.
dy's probably sleeping right now, it wouldnt do to wake him up, i guess. okay, end of rambling entry, ill try to find something to occupy my time till dawn. its probably gg to be another book anyway.
oh yah, very late, but i did finish nodame cantabile on the net. loved it, well written, and great development of the characters. tamaki hiroshi was a discovery of mine after spotting him on NHK, I THINK. cnt rmb the name of the show now, though. saw ueno juri in swing girls, and thought she was great. she sort of reminds me of aoi yu as well, same type. and we saw aoi yu everywhere when we were in tokyo. billboards, CMs, dramas.. juri's a pretty name. =)
save meee~ im stuck in a flurry of information about universities. i cnt sleep, not now. not when i dunno whats good for me.
its fascinating, isn't it, when you think of how vastly different your life might be with each different choice you make. how you wish you could just chuck everything into the bin right now and let it be.
stressed. up till 3.50am staring at scholarship opportunities.
have been thinking and thinking these few days about university acceptances. really, honestly speaking, i have no idea what i should do. am i ready for a life outside, on my own, entering a different culture, and having to fend for myself? or should i be more comfortable something else im really interested in, back here in singapore, taking an extra 1.5 yrs to get my degree? am i ready for a life of research, rather than media, what i thought i would be doing?
it's a hard choice to make, considering the fact that many other factors come into play in making these decisions.
trick is the best series everrr to appear on tv asahi, and ive been rewatching trick 3, and amazed at how the scriptwriter can do it so well, and the chemistry of nakama yukie and abe hiroshi is just great. abe hiroshi is probably one of the most underappreciated actors in japan; he simply rocks as ueda jiro.
wu ke qun playing on itunes now. you never knew chinese ballads could be so appropriate for a day like this.
